Breeders - Birmingham Academy

I genuinely did not think what I was doing when I said yes. Going to see the Breeders OK, on a Sunday not OK. Were they on my musical radar anymore? kind of, but not sufficiently to warrant this a must see gig. I guess that it must have been my friends wimpering on the phone for me to go wih him that I gave into. Haven't heard the last album, but Kim Deal as anyone alt music minded will exthal the virtues of her goddess like genius. And I guess there was a certain amount of curiosity. It's been 15 years since I saw the Breeders. Hey! You've got to compare wrinkles and she looked better. But I can only console myself with the fact that that I haven't quite stooped to the level of TV choice a recent interview she gave revealled. It transpires she likes watching Midsummer Murders! There is a God!

Got to the Carling Academy in Birmingham, and have to say it just reaked of pee, the walls were sticky and just a dower place to be. Anyway. Support Jim Noir soon perked me up. really like the plinky, electro-retro love buzz of his songs. Loved ' What You Gonna Do' Imagine the Bees crossed with The Beatles 'Revolution' and trips effortlessly along, and you just have to love someone who can open a song with the Line's I've never been to Morcombe Bay'. I heard that he'd supported Supper Furries recently, which kind of figures, both have a great sense of intelligent playfulness musically. Nice woolly hat too.

Bang On was the breeders opening gambit. I started to get the picture that the Breeders were thinking hard about what they should be doing, thus plumping for an even more stripped down sound to the days of yore, and more straightforward too, gone are the days of the really out there jagged beats found in Last Splash and Pod, but songs like German Studies still hold that ground. But fear not, the love of lo-fi fuzz is still a must. And Kelly Deal was made-up being in Brum. She exclaimed that if she came from the home of Balck Sabbath she would just be going around saying Fuck all day......Yep.....eh....yeah.
I'm sad to report that it was leaving me cold a bit. Guess you move on and have to say that I perked up when a couple of the well knowners were rolled out. Just really bought back memories of being young and wreckless. It was abit like that part in Amelie, when she leaves a tin full of memories that she found in her skirting board, in a phone booth for the man who hid the tin as a boy to find it. Shame my memories were left in somewhere as smelly.